Comments on: Culture Shock: Beijing Fast Food

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:50:34 +0000

I tried the bird nest soup last year. Tastes really good… yeah, I thought it was gross at first, but wow, you won’t regret it.

By: Chia

Chia — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:18:48 +0000

I agree with Stuart that the author of this article is ignorant and poorly informed.

By: Keira

Keira — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:27:33 +0000

Blech scorpion! I know they’re totally used to it because they grow up with it, but I can’t bring myself to wrap my head around eating that kind of stuff. :/

By: Sam @ Sydney Catering

Sam @ Sydney Catering — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:24:12 +0000

Yeah, I was just thinking, I could really do with some succulent tasty scorpion on a stick!?! NOT!!

By: vincent

vincent — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:07:27 +0000

Wow! The foods were o intereting,especially or thoes dog livers and the beetles. I don’t think I will eat then,but I still want to go there an have a look!!!

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:15:06 +0000

Thanks for the clarification W. Stuart, I didn’t think it was totally 100% true…

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:08:43 +0000

Wow! This is really interesting on all of the variety and exotic food in Asian. The scorpions and assorted beetles shocked me.

By: W.Stuart

W.Stuart — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:37:23 +0000

Yes, In China & many parts of asia, they eat insects & other strange things, but there are many things that are exaggerated by
Americans & I see many emails like this recently especially around the time of Beijing Olympics.

I’ve been to street markets like this in Beijing, & the writer of this is either biased against China or an idiot.

“Turkey Vulture Schnitzels” – I doubt there are any Turkeys Vulture’s in China anyway, but these look like shrimp cake on a stick.

“sea snakes” are squid.

“dog liver with vegtables – I doubt its “dog liver” – In China, Dog is a delicacy & quite expensive, they don’t sell it on the streets in skewers & most common form of dog is in a hotpot.

“Lizard legs” are actually soft shelled crabs

“Iguana tails” are actually “mantis shrimp”
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp

In Japanese cuisine the mantis shrimp is eaten raw as sashimi and as a sushi topping, and is called shako. In Hong Kong / Southern China its called “lai liew ha” It is commonly served in Japan & Hong Kong but is not often found on the menu in restaurants in the USA

Don’t be fooled.